FERC office issues horizontal directional drilling guidance

The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Energy Projects Office has issued fresh Final Guidance for Horizontal Directional Drill Monitoring, Inadvertent Return Response, and Contingency Plans, it announced on Oct. 9.

Nick Snow

Oct. 10, 2019

The new guidance addresses comments the office received to draft horizontal direction drilling guidance it released early including natural gas pipeline companies, engineering consulting firms, trade organizations, environmental interest groups, and state environmental departments, the FERC office’s staff said.

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Nick Snow

NICK SNOW covered oil and gas in Washington for more than 30 years. He worked in several capacities for The Oil Daily and was founding editor of Petroleum Finance Week before joining OGJ as its Washington correspondent in September 2005 and becoming its full-time Washington editor in October 2007. He retired from OGJ in January 2020.